Tipu Ake - A radical
leadership model
for growing living organisations and communities

How is Tipu Ake different?

The Tipu Ake Lifecycle is a holistic leadership
framework that encompasses and adds new meaning to a
whole range of conventional management thinking and
tools.

1. Most management thinking takes a Newtonian "machine
like" view of organisations. The Tipu Ake view
is that of a Living Organisation comprising living
components all interdependent and striving together
to grow a future in our real world living environment
with all its complexity, ambiguity and apparent
chaos.

2. Many improvement models take a process
view of an organisation and describe how projects
and teams fit in to it. Tipu Ake is a behavioural
model that concentrates on the organisational, team
and leadership behaviours that build capability and
thus drive success.

3. Most current management thinking
is highly analytical and fits within the Tipu Ake
Process (middle) level. Tipu Ake surrounds this with
other levels that rely on Leadership. The three levels
below support innovation, leadership and teamwork,
whilst the three above provide collective sensibility
checking (common sense), wisdom accumulation and the
vision of wellbeing that is aimed for.

4. Whilst most models take a linear
process path towards the objectives they seek, Tipu
Ake's uniqueness is that it is organic. It is a cyclic
model that recognises that it is often necessary to
cycle back and reinforce in order to move further
forward.

5. Many organisations are preoccupied
with the concept of the "The Leader" who
gives it a vision and structure. By comparison, Tipu
Ake focuses on "Leadership" - This is what
moves the organisation forward, and it works best
when shared so anyone can contribute it.

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The Tipu Ake Team thanks AUT for helping incubate this model and in particular the many student teams, staff and other local and international volunteers that have helped it germinate in many places around the world. Click for details